I'd make a disclaimer that if the charges are true she can rot...but they've changed the charges so often I don't even know what the current charges are. But, yeah, if child abuse took place, and she was a part of it, screw her. Of course.
It's just really disturbing how long this has been going on though, and it's sad that people have stopped talking about it. There used to be more attention paid to the case, but it's dragged on (well, starting it has), that most people lost interest. We have one post about her here, from two years ago. Even Reddit - which seems stuck in the past, so I would have thought Half-KiA or Reddit KiA2 would mention it - haven't posted about it in three or four years, as far as I can tell.
Six fucking years she's been sitting in jail, apparently in some rather unpleasant conditions. They've already dropped a ton of the charges they used to detain her, before any trial even took place.
The whole thing stinks, and her life has been utterly ruined.
That was in 2023, I don’t even care if they did do it, the prosecutors and judge who allowed that to happen should be locked up with her regardless.
Yup.
They've literally let shooters out same day with like $0-$50k bail.
It would be interesting to get a look at the records of just California, and see how many violent thugs they've tried/convicted/released, released on bail, found not guilty, refused to prosecute, etc., in less than six years. It's going to be a pretty high number.
Heck, you can find cases of actual child abuse where they're tried, convicted, and released in less than six years.
I'm not advocating for this, since I think the system is busted and I want actual child abusers to not be released so quickly, but if things were being consistently applied...you could make the argument that she should be released with time served no matter what.
One of the quirks of the American justice system is that pre-trial confinement isn't considered a punishment, despite being functionally the same as the punishment you would get if convicted, so you can end up with situations where someone sits in jail awaiting trial when even the maximum penalty for what they are charged with is less jail time than they already spent in jail awaiting trial.
The right to a speedy trial is meant to prevent this, but each state determines would constitutes "speedy" differently, and they all employ weird formulas that only count time after certain events; like none of the time spent counts against the time limit until you enter a plea for example.
There's ways to fix this, but one thing I've noticed about police, judges, and attorneys, is it they all seem to be fine with the system as it works now instead of being rightfully horrified at situations like this. When the people who have the power to reform the system have no interest in doing so, it's not going to get fixed.
Frankly, this is why Luigi has massive public support.
On some level everyone recognizes that there are systems in place that are wrong and that those who could correct them have no incentive to do so and zero consequences for perpetuating the situation. The only way to introduce those incentives is to go outside the bounds of law and sometimes morality.
People forget that society only exists because we've all made a handshake agreement that allowing the government to run things like the justice system and the military is preferable to anarchy.
When society primarily functions to exploit the majority so that a few government officials and wealthy people can enjoy near limitless power and money, it's only a matter of time until enough of the common folk get tired of it that they start a revolution.
IMO, the modern western world is living on borrowed time, bought with the comfort that all of the conveniences we have today give the common folk. They simply have more to lose than gained by revolting, but if that equation were to change, woe to those in charge.
Its because even the ones who aren't amoral/crooked monsters consider this "necessary" to get people who they think are guilty and they just can't get enough of that pesky evidence or jury swaying power to stick it to them.
You watch enough crime shit and you notice a constant theme of "we decided they were guilty so we bent every law and spent infinite money/time trying to make that fit" (and then its some other guy) and "we are super pissed someone has rights to things like attorneys or not willfully sitting in jail when we decided they were guilty."
To everyone in control of the law, its a tool and a weapon to get what they want. Not a principle to be upheld.
There's clearly a lot I don't understand about this case because this situation is constitutionally prohibited. Her lawyer must be absolute garbage.
Laughs in J6 trial judge
Sign of an occupied nation
I think I heard she has a public defender now.
She ran out of money a long time ago. Like I said, guilty or innocent, her life has been absolutely ruined. She has damn near nothing left; housing, money, freedom, job. Even lost a bunch of friends and family relationships, I assume.
The process is the punishment
tell that to the J6 political prisoners. Judges are the real seat of power and corruption in this country.
Anyone who trusts the DOJ after jan 6th needs to have their head checked.
I think it's one of those cases where they are trying to get her to take a plea, because the state's evidence wont pass muster. It would be a huge embarrassment and $$ payout. But because the nature of the charges are so evil, most people aren't going to complain too much to defend her.
Yeah, as I said in another comment, I think a big chunk of the "evidence" is the testimony of a ten year old girl actively involved in a custody dispute.
0_o
Who was fucking FOUR years old when the alleged offenses happened.
You have a right to a speedy trial. Of course, the law now is so complicated that you'll never be able to mount a defense without the same seemingly-infinite pockets that the government has.
How strange. A coincidence, I'm sure.
I am of the opinion that there should be a hard limit on the length and number of laws that we have.
It has gotten so bad that not only do you need a lawyer for most legal issues, but the lawyer themselves are so specialized that they do not understand every law themselves. And that extends even further to judges, because there is no way that a judge is capable of knowing every law in the foot thick book of laws that are in the USC.
Foot thick? The tax code alone is getting close to a six digit page count.
Most of it needs to burn and start again, with constitutional amendmends requiring all laws proposed be written in plain language BY the person proposing them, NOT lawyer farms.
The irony is why she rots in jail without ANY trial, she's probably at least NOT on the Epstein list.
It's more testament that she HASN'T killed herself yet as from the way this played out, it seems like they were hoping to push her this way. The fact they haven't tried her convinces me their evidence is weak beyond belief against her.
I mean, testimony of a ten year old girl is just about the definition of an unreliable witness. Add to that the parental dispute, and the possibility of coaching from the father (which, for the record, I don't condone, but do understand the desire to get your daughter out of an environment so close to drugs and porn), and reliability drops off even more.
I don't remember all the details, but I do think the girl made an accusation to the police, and that was a big part of the charges. Again, terrible if true, and those responsible would deserve to rot in jail...but hardly compelling enough to hold potentially innocent people in jail for six years on impossible bail.
I hate compounding charges. While I don't approve of the lifestyle, you had a bunch of things that didn't necessarily involve the child at all being used as evidence of child abuse. And, a personal hatred of mine, I believe they used the fact that there were illegal drugs to claim that they were also prohibited from guns, because they were criminals...despite not being found guilty yet.
Guns are not illegal. You shouldn't be able to charge someone for having a gun, even if you also find meth. Which, just to reiterate, I do not approve of. Don't do meth. Don't do porn. Don't do either in households with children. But you don't get to chain it all together and say the existence of each element means the guns were illegal and there was child abuse going on.
I know this is getting long, but last point. Marriage/child disputes are nasty. You can convince a kid who was never abused to make even true statements that paint a picture of abuse or neglect. Lawyers also tell you to lie and claim you were abused in divorce proceedings, I've heard from multiple people. Similar things are surely happening in custody disputes.
It's absurd to hold someone this long with, apparently, no actual evidence of the main crime. For all the porn, drugs, and guns "evidence," I haven't seen any allegation of the child being involved with the guns, porn, or drugs.
Yeah, the difficulty of Mercedes' situation is you have to keep your personal moralities and biases at bay as you try to assess the constitutionality of the situation. Lucky for us, we're better at doing that than leftists do.
Carrera probably lived a life of degeneracy and hedonism and most of us probably absolutely depises her lifestyle, but what she does personally doesn't matter. Are the facts of this case even fucking coherent? Was there any ACTUAL wrongdoing here, or are we trying to slap a bunch of shit together to increase the DA or prosecutor's win/loss record?
If you can't make a fucking case in six years you HAVE NO CASE. Let her go.
At this point it doesn't matter if she's guilty or not, the legal apparatus has utterly forfeited its right to hand out a ruling and everyone involved in keeping her detained for so long should be publicly flogged for the injustice of it all.
Closest she would come to Epstein would honestly be being potentially trafficked, which could explain ending up in porn. But I don't believe THAT kind of thing ever came up in any recounting of her life story though there isn't much other than her not being your typical dropout with no other prospects than porn.
This is the sort of thing Robert Barnes has been railing about for about as long as I have been watching Viva and Barnes. The key thing, and Robert has talked about this numerous times, is that up until recently the System has kept such depredations confined to the criminal class, but the arrogance and stupidity of the modern day Professional class has lost all sense of boundaries. They are now doing this kind of thing for political reasons, to political dissidents, and not just to the criminal underclass.
Mercedes Carerra is still in prison because she was very publicly MAGA.
Rule 2 says I can't say what the solution is, but I can say it needs to be personal, and very public. Thomas Wales is a good example. This extreme anti-gun Seattle prosecutor was murdered in his own home in 2001, the case is still open, and there are no leads.
Meanwhile...
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/y8xcng2qbk4.mp4
I hope their chickens come home to roost.
Even if Mercedes and her husband get vindicated in court, the damage done to their relationship with the child is irreversible.
The entire situation is both an affront to due process and utterly bizzare. The ER of the hospital where inmates are sent to when the jail can't provide medical treatment is run by an ex-husband of hers. The whole thing reeks to high heaven.
I have no clue of any detail when it comes to this case. All I know is it would be extremely sad if she was a victim herself as well.
I'll give you the short, short version from memory.
The Baby-Daddy of Mercedes' little girl had been having a bitter custody dispute with Mercedes. Things are ongoing ang acrimonious.
BD phones the cops and makes a bunch of reports about Mercedes and her partner using the little girl in porn or some such. Child abuse.
The cops bust in and search the place. They find enough meth for personal use and a legal hand gun.
At that point they use some bullshit interpretation of the law that because there is a gun AND drugs then it is a serious gun crime. This is exactly the play they used on Nick Rikieta; right down to the pissed off ex making reports.
The child (about age 4) was turned over to the father. Mercedes and her partner were thrown in jail on the gun charge while the police and prosecution thought up something to charge them with and to build a case.
It has been six years.
Most of the "evidence" is testimony of the daughter, who has been coached for six years now.
IMNHO, Mercedes probably deserves a drug possession charge and a good slap for being stupid enough to keep drugs in her home while she is fighting with her ex.
Feel free to correct me where I am wrong.
I can't thank you enough for taking the time to catch me up. Thank you big time.
It does sound sketchy AF for sure.
It is worth noting that Mercedes was very politically outspoken and took a pro GamerGate position (i.e. anti lying media) when that was very uncool. She was MAGA before that really became a thing.
Nick Rekieta was openly critical of the judges in his state and local, and had a huge audience. He was the most successful Youtuber (by Superchats) by quite a long way. His livestreams were consistently huge; like, bigger than CNN huge.
His channel was dedicated to educating normies and showing them the seamy side of lawfare cases. He reached his peak somewhere around the Depp vs Herd trial.
Rekieta inspired a hundred Lawtube pretenders, including Viva / Barnes, who took a bunch of inspiration from his success. I don't know if Barnes would have gotten into YouTube without seeing how successful Rackets channel became.
Both Mercedes and Nick Rekieta were involved in swinging sex stuff. Both were personally using drugs. Both were targets of the establishment.
I am not trying to justify anything that Nick has done wrong, but be aware that these are the tactics that the establishment uses to destroy people who call them out. They tried this exact shit on Trump; it is just that Trump is justifiably paranoid and has had a team of PAs keep his appointment diary hour by hour for literally years.
And remember, knowing is half the battle.
Now imagine as others have said that this is the norm with a lot of the legal system in America but at least you've still got the guns right?
ngl, I legit thought she been out of jail for like 4 years now.
Feel bad for her*
*if innocent, and from the stuff that was going around in 2019, 2020, I was on the side of need more proof
Even if she isn't innocent she has been in jail longer than 90% of the people found guilty for the crime she is accused of. So that doesn't even matter anymore.